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NO.

CONFIDENTIAL.

opy to Peking:

Sir,

Ansel (64)

BROEIVED

19 JUN 1933

C. O. REGY

4x8

143

GOVERNment hoUSE,

HONG KONG, 17th May, 1933.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

(6) your despatch No.36 of the 25th January, 1933, on the subject

of the delivery of certain aeroplanes to Canton and to inform

you that the machines mentioned to His Majesty's Ambassador

at Washington are presumably those set out in the enclosed

These machines had on arrival in Hong Kong

schedule.

gun-mountings, gun rings, gun sights, interrupter gear and

bomb racks already built in, and, after erection at Kai Tak

Aerodrome flew to Canton with this equipment and no more.

Enquiry was made of the Far East Aviation Company whether the

machines had been exported from the United Kingdom under

licence from the Board of Trade after approval by the Chinese

Minister in London and the Company replied that

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A Nationalist Government hujao has not been applied

for, except in the case of guns and bombs because the

Board of Trade in England in the past have been

prepared to issue permits to our manufacturers to export

this equipment without reference to the Chinese Minister

in London".

9259 This statement seems at variance with the position as stated in

the letter (No.53 (F344/37/10) dated the 21st January, 1932,

from the Foreign Office to Sir Miles Lampson, a copy of which was forwarded with your Confidential despatch of the 4th February

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&C.

1932.